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Emails to the MCB on issues and events since Sept 11
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| Sunday 16 September 2001 at 08:01 17:38 |
| Ken Ross |
After hearing about the disgusting hate mail that you have received, I would like to express my support and concern about the way ordinary muslims are being blamed by some people for the actions of extremists who may or may not have portrayed themselves as muslims. The outrage last Tuesday must be looked at in the context of all terrorist actions and I sincerely hope that the US Govornment does not commit revenge attacks that would involve innocent people in the Middle East.
For the record, I am a white English agnostic and I believe that the vast majority of people in the UK share similar views.
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| Sunday 16 September 2001 at 06:53 |
| Godfrey Smart |
I was moved to write to you - I\'ve never done anything like this before -
to say how much that interview shocked me. Surely people realise that what
happened on Tuesday had nothing to do with religion? The killers didn\'t
care what religion the passengers on those planes belonged to, they
didn\'t care what religion the people of Manhattan belonged to - they
murdered them anyway.
I am British, white-skinned, and I\'m not a muslim. But I am quite sure
that all of us in Britain were shocked and horrified at this attack on the
people of Britain, of America, of the world. I wanted to write, just to
let you know, that I am sure most people believe that we must all now
stand up for law, for tolerance, and respect for one another, and that is
how we recognise the terrorists. I feel sorrow and sympathy for all my
friends in America, and today I just wanted to say that I think I now also
understand how this horror has a special pain for you. I am sorry for
that.
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| Sunday 16 September 2001 at 12:15 |
| Rihan Ahmed |
The hate mails sent to MCB are just appauling. Muslims world over have declared unequivocally that we DO NOT support this incident. We feel the same grief over the incident as does everybody else. And I don't think we have to produce some kind of a license to prove that we are telling the truth. We are saddened by this incident whether someone believes it or not. As for some Palestinians celebrating, a lot of hindu extremist organisations in India & around the world are also 'internally' celebrating, because they know that some muslim countries will be bombed & muslims will be killed. And also, whenever the USA bombed Iraq & killed several innocent people almost all Americans supported the incident. Israel was even wishing that a war broke out so that all Iraqis would be wiped out. What about all this?
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| Saturday 15 September 2001 23:31 at |
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to all muslims,
i speak for me and only me. i am a white british male and was born and bred here.
i have no trouble to offer muslims worldwide.what has happened is barbaric.
I do not blame all muslims for what happened in america.
i must say one thing thing though,
MAY THE TALIBAN AND IT'S MEMBERS DIE THE MOST VILEST OF DEATHS.
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| Sunday 16 September 2001 at 22:59 |
| Ahsan Alim |
Its distressing to hear there are so many emails that are generalizing
all muslims to be terrorists. Why does the media encourage this? Why
doesn't the media show the Israeli soldiers torturing Muslims and
hanging Muslims heads on the walls? This has been going on for years.
How about the IRA? how come they are not referred to as Christian
Catholic extremists? How come when the IRA have committed many bomb
lasts i.e. in Omagh and London, no-one mentions that all Irish people
are bad people? Remember the Oklahoma bombing? They were all saying the
day after the attack that Muslims were behind it, only to find out that
it was committed by a Non Muslim. They never even apologized to muslims
that they wrongly accused them. Why are only Muslims mentioned as
extremists?
The media seriously need to change their stance on how they show events
on TV, because it seems as if they are trying to promote that fact that
all muslims are terrorists. There are terrorists from all religions in
the world, but it does not mean all religions are bad.
I have heard so many muslims getting attacked in London, i.e. a muslim
woman getting stabbed in Finsbury Park, but this has not been shown at
all in the news, but when ONE single white man gets attacked, everyone
hears about it. This is unjust. Innocent mosques in America are getting
petrol bombed. Aren't they terrorist attacks? The only way peace will
occur if the media shows events in a fair manner. We always see israeli
eople dying when they get attacked, but we hardly see the palestinians
babies dying on the news, when this happens all the time. WHY? Its about
time the media spoke the truth. I condemn the attacks on America, but it
eems as if the media is using this attack to wipe out all the muslims
in this world
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